Re: [Scribia-dev] Carbon build probs

[Lark <lar...@ya...>]

At 10:18 PM -0700 6/6/01, Ben Hines wrote:
>No, unfortunately. I think there is a commercial solution for PP on 
>Windows, but nothing free. There are other frameworks that do that 
>job, but powerplant is not one of them.

Sucks. (Bing - two peppers.)

>Adding a GUI to the scanner wasnt a huge amount of work, it just 
>takes a while when one does it in their spare time, and is not a 
>professional programmer. Perhaps i could learn one of the new 
>OSX/Un*x/Windows frameworks (are there free ones?) by porting 
>scribia to it.

I don't know any. On Unix, it's pretty much Motif - or Gtk these days.

But here's an idea for a platform-independent GUI - the web! Make a 
CGI out of the scanner, implement the GUI as forms: bingo, eScribia. 
Of course we'd keep all data on the server, so we can check how 
everybody is training :-)
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Lark <lar...@ya...>